Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics interchange format, also known as GIF, died this month at the age of 74. Animated or not, GIFs may now be a common, free feature of the internet, but the tech ...

Looking for more? Check out Matthew's full #GifHistory Twitter thread for explanations on where all these famous GIFs—and more!—came from. Comical Way the Phrase ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ Started ...

Music History in GIFs is run by Joshua Carrafa, a 29-year-old GIF artist based in Brooklyn, who creates original 8-bit animations using Photoshop to commemorate iconic dates in rock & roll. He’s no ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — In an era of ubiquitous photography and advanced editing, it’s fun to look back on old images and bring new techniques to play with them. There’s the popular topic of colorizing ...

“We can feature content that many users might not be aware of, and boost the profile of the agency with people who either might not be aware of the us, or may have forgotten about us since that high ...

Twitter user Matthew A. Cherry is doing the Lord’s work. The director and former NFL player is tracking down the history of some of the most-used reaction gifs, linking them back to the original video ...

Just two months before MTV’s Video Music Awards, the network was in a bind. A photographer scheduled to shoot One Direction to promote the big event had canceled due to passport issues. A call was ...

If, for some reason, the Graphical Image Format, or GIF, were ever immortalized with a Hollywood biopic, the narration in the trailer might go something like this: “It started as an innovator, became ...

Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed away at the age of 74 due to complications from COVID-19. While he claimed to have “never got 1 ...